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 shasolenzabi wrote:
So the Ad-Mechs are glass-cannon style army?

If you run the war convocation their durability goes up significantly as all units can receive the benefit of stealth and shrouded for 2 turns.

Hmmm, well, I have just the one squad of skitarii for the use as Trade Worlds Consortium as shipment guards as well as ship guardians to stop piracy.

Hey gang, long time no post.

Actually have an update with a little bit of substance. Firstly, I got the last components of my 40k AdMech army from the brilliant Nerdfest09 just in time to use them in a local, Highlander-style tournament. I'm still working on the basing for most of it but will post good pics when I'm finished. If you've been following Nerdy's blog, then you've already seen them. These units will probably bring this army to a conclusion with a few exceptions. I have two different knights that I'll be basing especially for this army. Might also tweak some of the paint on them. Not that Ramos didn't do a beautiful job painting them, but I asked him to keep all the mechanical bits very simple & I'm thinking it might be worth it to add just a little bit of color on some pipes & hoses so they're a bit more interesting from the back. I'm also going to work on my Void Shield Generator which looks good, but is basically just a solid gold color. Personally I think the AdMech wouldn't be much for adding color... just reveling in the natural beauty and glory of the metal... however it's a bit boring so I'll make some careful additions here and there to give it some interest without (hopefully) changing the character of the model.

Nerdy also gave me a good start on my next project... a 30k dark mechanicus army. Nerdy painted up 20 adsecularis covenant... kind of grunt infantry. I'll be doing the rest of the army myself, but this gives me two blobs (or one big blob) of fearless troops (with the right upgrade) that can be very useful based on the YouTube videos I've been devouring.

I do have a photo for you... my 1650 Aonius Forge army. I'll detail a bit about how the tournament went below if anyone is interested. Sorry for the rather uninspiring pic. Just something from my phone on my home table as I was getting things packed up for the day.



The army won best painted... so I'm sending the trophy to Nerdfest. It is indeed, beautifully done.


It was a fun and interesting tournament. Highlander-style which means you can't duplicate any units except for troops, and you need to take one of each available troop before you can double up on them. There were some other rules as applies to army construction that I didn't rightly understand... but this was a legal build. You were also supposed to build a fluffy army (as opposed to just a powerful one). This resulted in some really neat, unusual lists in what was for us, a very well attended tournament (20 people).

I think my army was a bit "harder" than it should have been given the emphasis on fluffy lists for this tournament... unfortunately when you set out to build a war convocation... you're pretty much left with nasty units. I don't have any priests or anything like that, and my army (with no SH's allowed in this tournament) is actually pretty shy on points so getting to 1650 was a challenge, hence the VSG. The only other odd thing was that due to the build restrictions & the fact that this army is split into two codecii, the only figure I have in my army that makes a reasonable warlord (the Tech Priest Dominus) was not allowed to be the warlord... so my warlord was a 1W, T3 skitarii vanguard sergeant who spent most of the tournament hiding in reserve with his unit trying not to get killed. (this didn't work very well, he died 2/3 times anyway).

Game 1 was against a nice, varied Black Templar list. Biggest threats were a unit of terminators and a unit of grav cents (I'm not very good in assault and with the exception of my 3 grav servitors have little AP2). Luckily for me the terminators came in late and the grav cents scattered on their drop and ended up just outside the VSG bubble on the other side of a tall wall. This prevented them from being a major factor and I was eventually able to tarpit them with my two dragoons. My heavy arc rifle servitors were the star of this game... taking out a vehicle on nearly every turn. I was able to infiltrate my infiltrators into a piece of terrain in the center of the board where they accounted for themselves well & were a general annoyance to the marines trying to get around the large LOS blocking piece of terrain to get into my lines. In essence I was able to shoot my opponent back just enough to earn a minor victory. Fun game, great opponent.

Game 2 was against a friend running a very fluffy demon list. Lots of infantry, small units, very few upgrades. We each picked 3 units to kill of our enemies for the primary, but because we had to share this information before the game started... it made it tough for either of us to actually win the primary because we both did our best to hide our key units. Honestly, this game came down to my opponent's reserve rolls. Once again I got my infiltrators into some excellent LOS blocking cover in the center of the table where they did a good job of harassing weakened units that were moving by. Unfortunately for my friend, most of his army started the game in reserve & he was never able to bring in more than 2 or 3 units at a time and the first units to come in were his weakest. Thus I was able to concentrate enough firepower to eliminate each wave before the next arrived. By the time his good units arrived, there was nothing left to "occupy" me and I was able to shoot up the last wave before it could do a lot of damage. Even so, he managed to kill 2/3 of his target units (as I did mine)... so it was close near the end. We tied the primary, but I won the secondary. Another minor victory, another fun game with a great opponent.

Game 3 was against an army I'd never played before. A massive AM horde. Over a hundred infantry figures and tons of special weapons teams. They filled his side of the board. He'd rolled a warlord trait that allowed him to infiltrate 3 units forward. Luckily, I won the infiltrate roll-off & sacrificed my Infiltrators by placing them 18" away from him in as long a line as possible. This froze most of his army in place, though he did a good job stretching a huge blob along one of the table edges. What followed was simply a race... could I keep shooting the hordes back before they overran me? Because I had a lot of vehicles and high T models I focused on the heavy weapon squads early, then got lucky mid-to late game when some assaults against the two big blobs really paid off. Biggest moment was when a 30-man blob in assault with my robots. The IG lost assault, failed morale twice (commissar), and got run down... giving me access to an objective that eventually won me the primary. So yes... luck once again. Very cool army, great opponent.

I ended up third overall, which is definitely my best placement given the size of the field. The AdMech are a bit confusing, primarily as everything (guns, special rules, etc.) is new and unfamiliar... but it's an interesting and fun army to play. Pretty darn powerful too.

Congrats on coming in 3rd. Congrats on the painting win. Thou it's expected now. Congrats Damo!

I was at the tournament with Gitz, his army is beautiful and deserved best painted. That red with the gold flecks in it looks even better in person. Gitz's second opponent is one of the best players in our area, beating him is quite an accomplishment!

Man, that is beautiful.

Gitsplitta, congratulations on your placement and awards and I am glad your plog is still going.

Looking good Gits, sounds like you had a good time

Thanks for the comments guys. Not having regular access to Dakka has really impacted my hobbying... even I'm surprised at my lack of motivation when I don't have the support and feedback from you all. I'm starting to get the itch again though. Have some smaller projects to work on and I think if I can get through those... I'll be able to tackle the bigger projects again.

Posting and especially uploading photos is a major problem, but I should be able to keep you guys updated from time to time.

Thanks for staying with me. I really do appreciate it.

Did we establish if it was your device or your ISP?

Probably. I checked my security settings and that doesn't seem to be responsible. I'm going to be contacting my provider to see if they can help me sort things out.

You can shoot me a text if you wan't any help, but sounds like you got a good plan.

Thanks WM, I appreciate that. Would like to get back to one of the things that I really love & the community that supports it.

Sounds like fun was had in each battle, and yeah, that army does look good!

Looks beautiful Gits, love the tiny seagull on the Void Shield Generator sphere thing.

Looks cracking. Great to see you and your goodies

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Thanks for the comments guys. Not having regular access to Dakka has really impacted my hobbying... even I'm surprised at my lack of motivation when I don't have the support and feedback from you all. I'm starting to get the itch again though. Have some smaller projects to work on and I think if I can get through those... I'll be able to tackle the bigger projects again.

Posting and especially uploading photos is a major problem, but I should be able to keep you guys updated from time to time.

Thanks for staying with me. I really do appreciate it.

That is rough, my company is throttling me at the moment because I use a phone sim card with unlimited data for my internet. I feel your pain. Also, without Dakka I notice the motivation goes away like you said, and instead I generally just feel guilty because that means life is getting in the way.

I guess we'll be waiting for some cool AM guys here quietly, unless you are done with the army for now.

Congrats Gits I'm very very happy for you with your wins mate! And I hear the thing that tipped the painted army award was the basing! ;-)

@shas: Thanks sir!

@Verv:

@graven: Nice to be seen. Hoping it happens more often.

@Stormwall: I hear you. I can still post (on a limited basis)from work, but no photo uploads from there & nothing from home... so the only way I can currently get a pic onto Dakka is from my phone. So I take a pic with my good camera, fiddle with it on my PC, upload or e-mail it to my phone, then upload it from there to Dakka. Then I have to wait until the next work day to make a post including the uploaded photo (because I suck at texting from my phone). Really sucks the joy out of the whole process.

@nerdfest: Ahhhhh no. But it is my little contribution.

No Problem Gits!

Well done Gits, sounds like you've done well.

Damo's beautiful vanguard with my basing.

Really nice stuff.

Thanks Tom. Hope to have another update for you guys tonight.

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Initiate “Smell_Flowers" subroutine.
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Abort/retry/kill all humans?


I love the bases. Little flowers in the wasteland, being fought over by killer death cyborgs.

Thanks Nev, that's what I was going for. Glad to see the "message" gets through.

I think we all need to get garbage cans and toilet plungers and run around shouting "EXTERMINATE!!!"

Gits,
Your models and bases are stunning as always.

Nothing like a good base to tie a well painted model together.

Great work both of ya!

Thanks guys. Just realized the stupid auto-correct had changed "Damo" to "Damond"... in case some of you were wondering who the heck that was... it's Nerdfest09.

Nice bases.

Good job on the tourney.

Hope you get your internet sorted soon.

Good to see you updating again